Where does “grandiloquence” come from?

grandiloquence (English) comes from Latin grandiloquus, from Latin -loquus, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

grandiloquence (English): Lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing

Definitions

Lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing

Ancestry of “grandiloquence”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Latin	grandiloquus	grandiloquent; boastful
2	Latin	-loquus	—
3	Latin	-us	suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
4	Old Latin	-os	accusative masculine plural of -us
5	Proto-Italic	-os	—
6	Proto-Indo-European	-ós	Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

Words derived from “grandiloquence”

grandilocvență

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós →Every word from Latin -us →Every word from Latin -loquus →